Comp.os.research: Welcome to comp.os.research [l/m 6 Jan 1996]

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From: bos@serpentine.com (Bryan O'Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Comp.os.research: Welcome to comp.os.research [l/m  6 Jan 1996]
Date: 15 Nov 1997 09:00:30 GMT
Message-ID: <64jobe$4a1@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: os-faq@cse.ucsc.edu
Summary: a first introduction to the operating systems research group

Archive-name: os-research/welcome
Version: $Revision: 1.5 $
Last-Modified: Sat Jan  6 18:16:47 1996

This periodic posting serves as an introduction to newsgroup
comp.os.research.  A set of companion postings, the Frequently
Answered Questions for comp.os.research, summarises some of the past
discussions in the group.

Comp.os.research is a moderated Usenet newsgroup created to foster the
discussion of and exchange of information on topics in the field of
operating systems research.  The moderator is Darrell Long
<darrell@cse.ucsc.edu> of the University of California at Santa
Cruz.  The maintainer of the FAQ is Bryan O'Sullivan
<bos@serpentine.com>.

As far as moderation policy is concerned, the following two principles
are applied to each article submitted for posting: is it interesting?
is it related to research?

Job announcements will be posted if they are related to operating
systems research; blatantly commercial postings are not acceptable.

Calls for papers for most conferences and journals related to OS
research will be posted.  This is fairly broadly interpreted, since OS
research is a large field.

Smart alec comments are generally filed unceremoniously in /dev/null.

Finally, discussions are cut off when the signal-to-noise ratio falls
below a certain (fairly subjective) level.  Please consider setting
the Followup-To: line whenever discussion drifts away from operating
systems research.

This posting, like much of Usenet, is maintained on a purely volunteer
basis.  It is subject to comment and improvement by sending email to
<os-faq@cse.ucsc.edu>.

Please note that there is a discaimer and copyright notice at the end
of Part 2 of the FAQ.